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2025-07-07 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Hezbollah chief vows not to surrender weapons under Israeli threats
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[IsraelTimes] Shrugging off US disarmament plan, reportedly in exchange for Israeli pull back, Naim Qassem says that ‘aggression’ must stop first, insists missiles needed to resist Israel
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem
... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
said Sunday his group would not surrender or lay down its weapons in response to Israeli threats, despite pressure from Leb
 ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
’s Western-backed government demanding the terror group disarm.
If you don’t hold up your end of the bargain, Israel won’t abide either. Enjoy your natural consequences, my dear, and remember that it was your choice. The response came after Lebanese leaders sought the group’s input as it formulates an answer to a proposal raised by US envoy Tom Barrack that would reportedly see Israel halt attacks on Lebanese soil in exchange for Hezbollah giving up its arms.
"This threat will not make us accept surrender," Qassem said in a televised speech to thousands of his supporters in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, during the Shiite Moslem religious commemoration of Ashura.
Qassem, who succeeded longtime leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
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after Israel killed him in September, said the group’s fighters would not abandon their arms and asserted that Israel’s "aggression" must first stop.
"How can you expect us not to stand firm while the Israeli enemy continues its aggression, continues to occupy the five points, and continues to enter our territories and kill?" Qassem said in his video address. "We will not be part of legitimizing the occupation in Lebanon and the region. We will not accept normalization [with Israel]."
Israel has regularly carried out dronezaps in Lebanon it says are aimed at operatives belonging to the Iran-backed group, despite a ceasefire in November that followed over a year of conflict, and two months of open war, sparked by daily Hezbollah rocket, missile and drone attacks on northern Israel starting on October 8, 2023.
It has also kept troops deployed at five border points inside Lebanon it deemed strategic.
Barrack was expected in Beirut on Monday. During the visit, Lebanese authorities are due to deliver a response to Barrack’s proposal for Hezbollah to be disarmed by the end of the year, according to a Lebanese official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Disarmament would end Israeli strikes targeting Hezbollah members and unlock funds to rebuild parts of Lebanon destroyed by Israeli forces last year, sources with knowledge of Barrack’s proposal told Rooters. It would also include Israel pulling out of Lebanon, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
"America’s equation asking us to choose between being killed or surrender does not concern us and we will cling to our rights," Qassem said in his speech, according to an English-language report from the Naharnet outlet.
In response to those who ask why the group needs its missile arsenal, Qassem said: "How can we confront Israel when it attacks us if we didn’t have them? Who is preventing Israel from entering villages and landing and killing young people, women and kiddies inside their homes unless there is a resistance with certain capabilities capable of minimal defense?"
Lebanese authorities say they have been dismantling Hezbollah’s military infrastructure in the south, near the Israeli border.
Israel says it reserves the right under the ceasefire agreement to act against imminent threats by Hezbollah, and accuses the terror group of ceasefire violations, which it denies.
Jerusalem also says that Beirut is not doing enough to disarm the group in southern Lebanon.
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